November 25th-29th

This week, we will continue working on our 6+1 Traits of writing activities. Completing these will help us prepare to write our own short stories. 

We are reviewing: 

Ideas and Content

Organization

Voice

Word Choice

Sentence Fluency

Conventions

Presentation

November 18th-22nd

This week, we finished up reading our short stories. The four we read were: 

The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

The Money's Paw by W.W. Jacobs 

Zoo 2000 by Richard Curtis

Please remember that you are choosing ONE completed analysis to turn in to be graded. 

8MI - we wrote our Short Story Assessment on Wednesday and your marks will be on Powerschool soon. We also started looking at the 6+1 Traits of Writing to prepare us for writing our upcoming short stories. 

8BI - you will write your Short Story Assessment on Monday. Please review Elements of a short story and the four stories read to prepare.

November 4th to November 8th

All Outsiders projects and questions should now be turned in to be graded! 

This week, we will be working on reviewing elements of a short story and reading 4 examples to help us understand each element. You will be completing a short story analysis with each story and will turn in your BEST one to be graded at the end of our unit. We will read The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe this week.